My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The requirement for military force is clear when looking at the first of the nine points agreed in Vienna, which states that… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches! — Mae West Copy Share Image
Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Because fats are so calorie-dense - there are nine calories per gram of fat - at 400 grams of fat, you're getting… — Eddie Hall Copy Share Image
Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming.… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I barley read stuff about myself. Even when I see some article about myself in a paper or a magazine, nine out… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
